
Ajuga orientalis
Island distribution (first record)
Othonoi
Ereikoussa
Mathraki
!! !! ... approved by herbarium voucherCorfu (Spreitzenhofer 1878 as A. orientalis)
Paxos
Antipaxos
Lefkada
Meganisi
Kalamos
Kastos
Atokos
Ithaka
Echinades
!! !! ... approved by herbarium voucherCephalonia (Unger 1862 as A. orientalis)
Zakynthos
Strofades
Annotation: Populations of Ajuga orientalis on Cephalonia (»in regione abietina m. Aeni ... et in m. Rhudi«) were first separated as var. aenesia (Heldreich 1882: 59) and later even considered as endemic subspecies of the island (Phitos & Damboldt 1985: 111, 173; Dimopoulos & al. 2013: 106). However, they are not distinctly different from plants of A. orientalis e. g. from Corfu and do not exceed the range of variation of this species in other European populations (as already mentioned by Bornmüller 1928b: 312 in respect to Sicily) or those of SW. Asia. The (tetraploid) chromosome number 2n = 32 of A. orientalis was confirmed with material of »subsp. aenesia« (Samaropoulou & al. 2015: 164) from Mt. Ainos (with up to 4 B-chromosomes). [2016-09-01]
Taxonomic references ("taxonyms")
linked to standard floras (PFB, FE, FE2, FH) and annotated checklists (AFE, VPG) giving direct reference to occurrences of plant taxa on the Ionian Islands:
PFB: | Aiuga orientalis |
FE: | Ajuga orientalis |
FE2: | volume not published |
AFE: | volume not published |
FH: | volume not published |
VPG: | Ajuga orientalis |